Cleveland Museum of Art
Mourning Virgin
- Date
- c. 1240–1260
- Medium
- painted wood
- Culture
- Austria, Region of Salzburg, Lungau?, 13th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 134955
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
These traditional devotional figures at one time formed a Crucifixion group with a Crucified Christ (now lost). The ensemble may have been mounted high above the entrance to the sanctuary of a church on a barrier called a rood beam, beyond which lay people were not allowed. Crucifixion groups were common in medieval churches where they symbolized the sacrifice and real presence of Christ in the Mass.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
- Provenance
- (Dr. Kurt Rossacher, Salzburg); Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, Cleveland, Ohio.
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